[Noisebridge-discuss] cell phone interfacing, Android

[Miah Johnson]

I'd rather make the android *the* computer, rather than interface with one..

http://sven.killig.de/android/N1/2.2/usb_host/

-Miah

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM,
<travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org<travis%2Bml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org>
> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Just out of curiousity, has anyone ever seen any projects involving
> computer-to-cell phone interfacing?
>
> I would expect it would be easiest with fancy phones, like the iPhone
> and Android - possibly over bluetooth - but I'm actually more
> interested in cheap tracfones, because I would only need to use it
> occasionally and I don't want to pay an additional $100/mo :-)
>
> I'll google this when I get around to the project, but just curious if
> anyone knows of stuff off the top of your head.
>
> BTW, if anyone is interested in the Android platform, here's my
> annotated list-of-links:
>
> http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/android.html
>
> Oh, and it's worth noting that you DON'T NEED A PHONE TO DEVELOP FOR IT.
>
> The emulator is very high quality, and it runs the same ARM binaries
> as the actual phone.  Sure, you don't have access to bluetooth, or
> some of the other hardware things, but it's really, really easy to get
> started.  It took me about a day to have my first working Android app.
>
> In my opinion, the security model is much better than the iPhone, and
> the development tools are much less idiosyncratic (Java rather than
> Objective-C and Cocoa), and the barrier to entry is lower (you can dev
> in Linux or Windows, and you don't need an actual phone).
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